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QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER OF THE NATIONAL AIDS FOUNDATION

VIP-100 Meeting

“Mister beauty-2009”“Mister beauty-2009”

“WORKING TOGETHER” TV Program

Working

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Announcement for TV Advertisement contest Announcement for TV Advertisement contest among University students. among University students.

Field visit to Dornod province

Training on prevention from HIV/AIDS and STIs, in Bayankhongor province.

Training toolkits published

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In 1998, the World Health Organization

initiated HIV/AIDS awareness day and

since then the first of December has

been known as the World AIDS Day.

Since 1990, Mongolia has joined the

World HIV/AIDS prevention campaign and has

organized activities to increase awareness of

HIV/AIDS and use of condoms among the

population.

As for this year, on the December

1, World AIDS Day, the National AIDS

Foundation organized “We are together”

TV show-program under the theme “Stop

AIDS and Keep the promise” collaborating

with “Total Music” Studio, “Coke’n Beat”

musical festival organizers, “3TS” NGO

and Mongolian National Broadcasting TV,

where sponsor organizations helped were;

Mongolian Family Welfare Association,

Mongolian Red Cross Society, MONOS

Group, and publishing companies; “Urlah

Erdem” “Colorteam” and “Unipress” worked

as sponsor for publishing, and media sponsor

companies; MNB, UBS, TV25, Mongolia TV,

Education TV5, TV8, TV9, Eagle TV, Sansar

TV, SBN, NTV, TM.

“All together” TV show-program has

provided a musical show with representatives

of young famous artists, including “Lemons”,

“Bulsara” and “ Zugeer l” bands, which are the

winners of the last three years in the “Coke’n

Beat” live musical festival and Tselmuun

Ch., Temuujin G., Uyanga B. and Amarbat

A. who are within the best 25 participants of

the “Universe Best Songs” musical festival,

who all put their contributions with songs for

actions to prevent from HIV and AIDS .

Uyanga B, journalist and presenter

of Ulaanbaatar Broadcasting System and

Ganbaatar N. journalist and presenter of

the Mongolian National Broadcasting TV,

hosted the program and participants of the

program were representatives of Government

and Non-government organizations working

in HIV/AIDS, and public health. In addition,

the quests of the program including

Mr.Ochirkhuu D., Parliament Member shared

their impressions and opinions. During this

TV show, it provided information about latest

news on HIV/AIDS epidemics in Mongolia

and in the World, it has showed interviews

made with representatives of public members

expressing and sharing their views on HIV/

AIDS and young artists presented with songs

appealing for friends to prevent from HIV

and AIDS. This TV show held on December

1 for the World AIDS Day was broadcasted

throughout the country by MNB, UBS, TV25,

Mongolia TV, Education TV, TV5, TV8, TV9,

Eagle TV, Sansar, C1, SBN, NTV and TM

televisions which had reached the public with

information and became the innovative event

which was greatly appreciated by the public.

“Working Together” TV Program“Working Together” TV Program

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In 2008, “VIP-100 minutes” meeting

was initiated and organized firstly

by the National Committee for AIDS

and it has become a tradition to organize it

every year since then. This year, “VIP-100

minutes” meeting was organized jointly with

the National Committee for AIDS, National

AIDS Foundation, and National Authority

for Children and “Newtel” Co., Ltd, and

had taken place in “M” club of “Mobicom”

Corporation on December 8. The purpose

of this event was to build an effective

partnership between government, private

sector and civil society organizations.

The meeting, which was organized

for the second time, here invited Batsuuri

J, Parliament Member, Udval V., Deputy

Minister for Justice and Internal Affairs,

Dr. Vivat R., Country representative of the

World Health Organization in Mongolia,

representatives of United Nations

Organizations in Mongolia, Khadhuu T.,

Head of the Secretariat of National Committee

on AIDS, Khurelbaatar N., State Secretary

for Ministry of Health, Odonchimed D.,

President of Mongolian Red Cross Society

and other representatives of governmental,

nongovernmental, international

organizations and also authorities of private

companies were invited.

Also for the World AIDS Day, National

AIDS Foundation and “KHAS” Bank have

jointly issued a Master Card with Red

Ribbon, which was announced as surprise

by Tur-Od L., Executive Deputy Director

of “KHAS” Bank on this occasion of which

some percentage of the transaction fee made

by this card will be donated to the National

AIDS Foundation.

By this, it will put a new beginning

of partnership between civil society

organizations and private sector.

VIP-100 Meeting



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The National AIDS Foundation

announced a contest to write a

script for 30-second TV advert for

the December 1, World AIDS Day and received

the following theme works from students and

youngsters; here in;

- Prevention from HIV/ AIDS and

Sexually Transmitted Infections

- Against discrimination and

Stigma of people living with HIV and AIDS

- Sex workers and socio-

economical factors for sex work

To the contest totally 12 students sent their

works from the Art and Culture University, State

Pedagogical University, Health and Science

University, Film Art Institute, Anima Paint

Art Institute, Paint Art Institute, Composition

Institute, where the work “ Condom and Wind

Dambii” by Byambajargal G. , student of

the State Pedagogical University, “What is

Discrimination?” by Khuuhenhuu D., student of

the Composition Institute and the work “Lets

get amateur consulting and undergo testing” by

Uranchimeg D., took the best places with the

price of 100 000- 200 000 MNT.

The works sent by the contestants have

showed that youngsters and students have good

knowledge of HIV and AIDS but the messages

should be more interesting, appealing and

unique especially designated for young

population.

There was organized a “Mask with Red

Ribbon” one day campaign for World

AIDS Day with the collaboration of

Patrol and Public Security Department, Traffic

Police Department of the City Police Department

and the State Special Guard Service.

During this campaign over 1500 masks

were distributed and been worn during the

World AIDS Day, where uniformed officers

of the above-mentioned organizations have

expressed their support and active participation

in campaigns to prevent from HIV and AIDS,

Human Influenza “A” Virus and the air pollution

in Ulaanbaatar.

Also on this day, with the purpose to

increase public awareness of HIV/AIDS among

the population of Ulaanbaatar city, LED Screens

located on the main roads of the city center

displayed messages “Today is the World AIDS

Day, Let’s stop AIDS – Keep the promise-

Leadership”, “Let’s get involved in Voluntary

Counseling and testing campaign- get tested

yourself first, then your friends” etc, for 24

hours repeating 220 times.

Announcement for TV Advertisement Announcement for TV Advertisement contestamong University students.contestamong University students.

Other activities“Mask with Red Ribbon” One day campaign

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Field visit.to Dorned province

The Liberal Women’s Intelligence

Foundation in Dornod province

has been implementing a project

“Future- without AIDS” to prevent sex

workers from HIV/AIDS in Dornod province

since January 2009. Munkhnasan M., NAF

program officer, had visited Liberal Women’s

Intelligence Foundation in Dornod province to

monitor project implementation and provided

necessary technical support to Liberal

Women’s Intelligence Foundation.

In addition, she completed the following

tasks within her visit:

• Organized the joint meeting of project

team and representatives of local government

organizations to increase collaboration and

cooperation of local Governmental and Non

Governmental organizations;

• Discussed with project team

members about the results of the monitoring

conducted in previous quarter. In addition, she

explained about the missing proof documents,

supporting materials in previous reports,

mismatching their indicators and had provided

instructions on how to write the report for next

quarter.

To reach sex workers at the border area,

particularly in Chinese border area is getting

very difficult so that it requires working closely

with the Police of the People’s Republic of

China. Because it is beyond the possibility of

project team’s independent activity, they have

agreed to select women participating actively

in project work, who are permanently living in

“Altan emeelt” and capable to cross the border

when the border is open, and train them

as peer educators and outreach workers to

distribute information to targeted community

over there.

Announcement for TV Advertisement contestamong University students.



On December 4, 5th, 2009 the

National AIDS Foundation

organized a training on theme

“Knowledge of Prevention from HIV/AIDS

and STIs” in Bumbuger soum, Bayankhongor

province, with the aim to provide a basic

knowledge on HIV/AIDS and STIs for artisanal

miners. NAF program officers Alimaa Ch.

and Lkhagvadorj S. facilitated the training;

with the cooperation of “Bayanbumbuger”

NGO project workers of Bumbuger soum,

Bayankhobgor province which engaged

artisanal miners, project workers, and peer

educators.

During this training session the following

subjects were covered; What is HIV/AIDS?,

Ways of transmission, HIV/AIDS epidemics

in Mongolia, HIV/AIDS current situation,

Prevention methods from HIV/AIDS, Human

Rights, Discrimination, Basic knowledge of

HIV/AIDS and STIs prevention. In addition, all

participants been tested for their knowledge

before and after the training, where test result

showed their knowledge level was 68% before

the training, after the training, the knowledge

level of participants on AIDS had increased

by 20%.

Training on prevention from HIV/AIDS and STIs, Training on prevention from HIV/AIDS and STIs, in Bayankhongor province.in Bayankhongor province.

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The medical science has proved

that the human sexual orientation

is natural inborn condition and

it is accepted all over the world. In many

countries the human sexual orientation is

accepted, respected and sexual minorities are

supported with different activities to protect

their human rights. In our country there are

a few NGOs working to protect human rights

of the gay community in Mongolia and to

change the negative approach from the

society towards the gay community. These

organizations provide information about HIV/

AIDS prevention for the gay community, also

help them learn how to protect themselves

and their friends from HIV/AIDS.

Since 2007, Mister Beauty contest has

been organized by the ‘Youth for Health’ NGO

with the financial support from NAF. Year

by year the number of contestants has been

increasing and getting more popular among

the gay community. The aim of this contest is

to respect human rights of the sexual minority

and provide an opportunity to get closer with

each other, letting them spend their free time

in an effective way and to get the knowledge

to protect themselves and others from HIV/

AIDS.

This year’s contest was organized

12th December 2009 and there were seven

contestants.

The contest was held in a quiet place

and gathering supporters of the contestants. I

know it is not right to call them ladies but they

are ladies. The seven contestants showed

their talents, skills and intelligence. It was

organized just as other Beauty contests,

which included walking in a fashion dress

and nightdress, swimming suit, talent,

intelligence competitions where competitors

had almost the same potentiality and they

amazed the audience.

Especially the quiz task was covering

information about how to prevent from HIV/

AIDS, this task was the most important part

of the contest. When the general judge of

the contest. Sarantsatsral Ts., State Honored

Artist, announced that the third contestant of

the contest as the winner of the contest, who

was Goolingoo, when he was announced as

the winner, the hall was filled with applause.

The next place went to contestant numbered

4, Solongo, and the third place went to Vanity,

who was numbered 5.

“Mister beauty-2009”



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Training toolkits publishedThe community mobilization for

HIV/ AIDS set helps communities to become actively and in fluently involved in addressing the causes and effects of HIV/ AIDS.

NAF has translated and published two toolkits, which are; ‘All together now’ and ‘Tools together now’.

The International HIV/AIDS Alliance

developed these two toolkits and they provide assistance for organizations and the community to organize effective HIV/AIDS prevention, care and support, access to treatment and service and impact mitigation through the community mobilization.

“Tools Together now” toolkit is intended to help organizations and

community groups mobilize and work together to address HIV/ AIDS issues.

Also we have developed and published new training toolkit for peer educators and trainers on reproductive health. This toolkit is designed to be easy to carry, simple for use.

If you wish to purchase this toolkit, please contact us.

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